I believe I have been through all the settings in the ALSA Sound Wizard and the sound mixer. I have made sure that volume is turned up and not muted. There is a sound icon at the bottom of the screen that seems to be functioning. I have tried sound from the internet and playing an audio cd. All indications are that the tracks or sound clips are being played, but there is no sound.

I have noticed with this sound card there are 2 devices differentiated as follows.
ES1371 DAC2/ADC
ES1371 DAC1

I have a windows partition set up and I am getting sound there so I believe the card is ok.

How I patched my Lucid 5.2.8 operating system so that my sound would work after rebooting time after time. This works on a Compaq Pavilion XH485 laptop with minor changes should work on other systems **Note in order for this patch to work ALSA sound wizard must find your sound card at least once.** In my case I had to run wizard every time I rebooted if I wanted sound, until I hard patched it, as explained below.

I looked at the “/etc/init.d/10alsa” file to see what or where it was looking for the sound card. I found it was around line 22. Somehow it was not finding what it wanted in the “/etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf” file and aborted the sound card configuration.
I remed (#) out the original line at line 22 looking for the info in the “/etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf” file and added a new line that stated the exact sound card info from the “alsa.conf” file at line 23.

In my case the sound chip was a Maestro3 and the “alsa.conf” file stated:
“Alis snd-card-0 snd-maestro3“ So I created a new line in "/etc/init.d/10alsa" file as follows:
“( 23 SNDMODLIST=" snd-card-0 snd-maestro3 " )

Main thing here is to look over your "/etc/init.d/10alsa" file and your "/etc/modprobe.d/alsaconf" file to see if you can patch it to work for you. Your sound chip will most likely be different than mine so use what your file says you have.